The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.

Iowa Sheep & Wool Festival

So this past weekend I learned how to spin on a supported spindle. For those of you that do not know, spindling is really the oldest organized way to spin fibers that there is. There are spindle stones found in neolithic archeological sites and some of our oldest art depicts people using drop spindles. Spindles …

I am, once again, in charge of classes for the Iowa Sheep & Wool Festival for this year. I’m really quite proud of the class list that we have come up with for this years attendees. There’s a little something in it for almost everyone! For the knitters, I have several great classes on offer. …